Electrical Engineering Manager - Surgical Robotics Released Product Engineering

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 8 Jun 2026

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

At Medtronic, we are driven by our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Within Surgical Robotics (RST), we are advancing minimally invasive surgery through innovative robotic platforms. The Release Product Engineering (RPE) team plays a critical role in sustaining and enhancing released products, ensuring reliability, quality, and continuity of supply for our surgical robotic systems.

As an Electrical Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of electrical engineers responsible for sustaining engineering, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement of complex electrical systems across Medtronic’s launched robotic platforms. This includes ownership of design changes, component obsolescence, supplier transfers, and field issue resolution within a regulated medical device environment.

As an Electrical Engineering Manager for the RST RPE group, you will work in close collaboration with other R&D functions such as Mechanical, Product Engineering, Software and Systems engineers. You will lead and develop a high-performing team of electrical engineers supporting our released surgical robotics platform. The focus of this electrical engineering team expands across power distribution, computing and networking, visualization, and mechatronics of our capital equipment, as well as electronics supporting our consumables and robotic instrumentation equipment.

If RPE projects are within your core field of expertise and needed, you might represent the R&D Hardware function as a project core team member, working alongside Marketing, Quality, Regulatory, Program Management and Operations to make critical decisions regarding projects execution and future product roadmaps within RPE.

If you are a pioneer and would like to have a big impact into the new world of medical robotics – then come join our team!

You Will:

• Lead and develop a high-performing team of electrical engineers supporting released RST products
• Own lifecycle management of electrical systems, including PCBAs, power distribution, interconnects, and control subsystems
• Drive engineering changes (ECOs), cost reduction initiatives, and design improvements while maintaining product compliance
• Lead investigations into field issues, nonconformances, and reliability concerns; perform root cause analysis and implement corrective actions
• Partner with manufacturing, quality, regulatory, and supply chain teams to ensure product continuity and supply stability
• Manage component obsolescence strategies, second sourcing, and AVL alignment
• Ensure continued compliance with applicable standards (e.g., IEC 60601, ISO 14971, IPC) for released products
• Oversee verification and validation activities associated with design changes
• Support audits, regulatory submissions, and documentation updates for design changes
• Collaborate with New Product Development (NPD) teams to ensure smooth design transfer and long-term support readiness
• Drive continuous improvement in product performance, reliability, and cost
• Manage project execution, resources, timelines, and technical deliverables across sustaining initiatives

Must Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
• 7+ years of relevant electrical engineering experience
• 2+ years of engineering leadership or people management experience

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with design and development of capital and consumable medical devices.
• Prior history of product development from concept through launch and transfer to manufacturing.
• Significant history with regulatory needs and standards in particular IEC60601-1.
• Experience in electrical safety and EMC / ESD testing and design techniques.
• Digital and analog hardware design: Prior experience with custom digital, analog, and power electronics circuit design, as well as off-the shelf equipment.
• Experience with network and communication protocols.
• Familiarity with BIOS / UEFI and QNX / Linux operating systems.
• High understanding in video and vision processing.
• Experience with implementing Cybersecurity.
• Seasoned user of electronic design and analysis tools, e.g. OrCAD, Allegro, HyperLynx.
• Experience with DRM and design for cost.
• Background and involvement in performing risk management.
• Experience in FDA regulated product delivery.
• Hands-on mentality.

Leadership Expectations

• Build and sustain a collaborative, accountable, and execution-focused team culture
• Mentor and develop engineers across both technical depth and career growth
• Drive disciplined engineering practices in design control and change management
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders, including senior leadership
• Balance speed, risk, cost, and compliance in a sustaining engineering environment

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship

At Medtronic, we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful impact. In alignment with our enterprise-wide workforce planning approach, U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.

Join us in our mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life—where your unique background and perspective are valued.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$142,400.00 - $213,600.00This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance,Health Savings Account,Healthcare Flexible Spending Account,Life insurance, Long-term disability leave,Dependent daycare spending account,Tuition assistance/reimbursement, andSimple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees:Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match,Short-term disability,Paid time off,Paid holidays,Employee Stock Purchase Plan,Employee Assistance Program,Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), andCapital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions. Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here.

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